Tag: Indian-held Kashmir
India’s ruling party to form coalition in occupied Kashmir
India's ruling Hindu nationalist party will for the first time govern the country's only Muslim-majority occupied state of Kashmir under a power-sharing deal with...
Indian police fire tear gas during protests in Kashmir
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Clashes erupted in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday after authorities blocked pro-independence protesters from marching to a U.N. office to...
Protesters clash with Indian authorities at Kashmir funeral
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Hundreds of angry protesters clashed with Indian authorities on Tuesday at the funeral of a young man killed during a demonstration in Indian-held...
Pakistan pledges to continue support for Kashmir on solidarity day
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Pakistan on Thursday observed Kashmir Solidarity Day with a pledge to continue the support for Kashmiris' rightful struggle against the illegal Indian occupation over...
Clashes in Indian-held Kashmir over blasphemous French cartoons
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Clashes between protesters and police erupted in Indian-held Kashmir's main city of Srinagar after Friday prayers amid a general shutdown called over the publication...
Indian troops kill 3 suspected rebels in Kashmir gunbattle
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Indian soldiers and police killed at least three suspected rebels during a fierce gunbattle Thursday in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, officials...
Modi’s party breaks new ground in Kashmir, Jharkand
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party made big electoral gains in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir and captured power in an...
Indian forces kill 6 militants crossing into Kashmir to ‘disrupt vote...
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Soldiers killed six militants near the border with Pakistan in the Indian-held Kashmir, the army said on Wednesday, in the biggest single-day shootouts...
Local leader shot dead as Indian-held Kashmir votes
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Suspected rebels have shot dead a village head in Indian-held Kashmir, police said Monday, a day before a second stage of voting in the...
Suspected rebels kill a soldier in Indian-held Kashmir
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The Indian army says a group of heavily armed suspected militants have killed at least one soldier and wounded three others in...
Indian-held Kashmir heads to polls as Modi’s BJP eyes power
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Indian-held Kashmir heads to the polls Tuesday amid tight security with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party eyeing power for the first time in the...
Indian Army admits ‘mistake’ in killing two teenagers
The Indian Army has admitted it made a mistake in shooting dead two teenagers in restive Indian-administered Kashmir this week, a rare public admission...
Foul floodwaters sicken people in Indian-held Kashmir
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Doctors in the flood-ravaged Himalayan region of Kashmir said Wednesday that they were seeing outbreaks of gastroenteritis among people crowded into shelters after...
Death toll in Indian-held Kashmir hits 39
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The death toll from severe flooding in Indian-held Kashmir rose to at least 39 on Friday, as overwhelmed local authorities requested help...
Three Kashmir rebels killed by Indian troops
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Officials say Indian government forces have killed three suspected rebels in a gun battle in the disputed Himalayan region of Indian-held Kashmir.
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Indian MP booked for sedition for declaring Kashmir not part of...
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he Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Lok Sabha member from Nizamabad, K Kavitha, has been booked on sedition charges for declaring that Jammu and...
Three killed ahead of voting in Indian-held Kashmir
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Suspected rebels in Indian-occupied Kashmir gunned down two village elders and one victim's son in attacks that police said were aimed at scaring off...